Mistress Pamela

{{Short description|1974 British film by Jim O'Connolly}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = Mistress Pamela

| image = "Mistress_Pamela"_(1974).jpg

| caption = British quad poster

| director = Jim O'Connolly

| producer = Jim O'Connolly

| writer = Jim O'Connolly

| based_on = the novel by Samuel Richardson

| starring = Ann Michelle
Julian Barnes
Dudley Foster
Anna Quayle
Anthony Sharp

| music = David Whitaker

| cinematography = Arthur Ibbetson

| editing = Fergus McDonell

| studio = Merlot Film Productions

| distributor = Anglo-EMI (UK)
Fanfare Films (USA)

| released = {{Film date|1973|11||UK release}}

| runtime = 91 min

| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

| budget =

}}

Mistress Pamela is a 1973 British sex comedy drama film directed by Jim O'Connolly and starring Ann Michelle, Dudley Foster, Anna Quayle and Anthony Sharp.{{Cite web |title=Mistress Pamela |url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150029947 |access-date=28 December 2023 |website=British Film Institute Collections Search}} It was written by O'Connolly loosely based on the 1740 novel Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson.{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/42940|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090115093356/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/42940|url-status=dead|archive-date=2009-01-15|title=Mistress Pamela|work=BFI}}

Plot

In the eighteenth century, Pamela, a servant girl in the household of Lord Devenish, must fight off the advances of her young master, a gentleman determined to have Pamela as his mistress.

Cast

Critical reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "What the makers clearly had in mind was Carry On Tom Jones."{{Cite journal |date=1 January 1973 |title=Miss Pamela |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1305837402/5671E4842B448D4PQ/1 |journal=The Monthly Film Bulletin |volume=40 |issue=468 |pages=253 |via=ProQuest}}

Time Out wrote, "Richardson's 18th century classic Pamela clearly dredged up for its bawdy possibilities ... About all the film has in common with the original is a notable lack of humour."{{cite web |date=10 September 2012 |title=Mistress Pamela |url=http://www.timeout.com/london/film/mistress-pamela |access-date=10 September 2024 |work=Time Out London}}

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